On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 09:55:07PM +0800, Emfox Zhou wrote: > At first I download the tarball and unpack it from my GNU/Linux system, > But after the reboot to the Hurd system, some system message shows that > "/liexec/console-run: /dev/console not found" (I cannot repeat it > exactly, but more or less the same meaning), and drop me a shell which > I could do nothing (system is readonly and nothing under /dev). I used > the newest tarball from [1] and operated according to the guide [2] and > [3].
Yes, and in [2] it is written in chapter 6 that you're supposed to run the following at that stage: #v+ # export TERM=mach # ./native-install #v- Did you do that? > Then I tried "crosshurd" package, and did as the docs in /usr/share/doc, > the same thing happened after the rebooting. You also have to run `native-install' at that stage. > I remember I did a cross installation one or two year ago, It works very > fine, just untar-reboot-nativeinstall-reboot-nativeinstall. So, what exactly was different this time? > Is it because > now we start a hurd console by default?(I've ever seen such a discussion > before in this list) I think the Hurd console doesn't start by the default configuration. > So I searched and found the xattr way[4], also from this list. I installed > modified linux kernel of 2.6.15 and patched "star", then run crosshurd, > it set all the trans correctly. but after booting it, I found I cannot > login (yes, the root password is not empty!)... and everything gone well > after I copied /etc/shadow from the Linux partition. Now I realize that you finally got your system installed... :-) Regards, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
